, 1887-03-24
4 Few Scraps from the National
Capital.
War Of Waters on the Missouri
River.
Great Damage Done and The
Foods not Over.
AN APPOINTMENT.

AN APPOINTMENT.
WASHINGTON, March 1a-William
II. Coe, of Kans as, has been appointed
medical examiner in the pension Office
under the. civil service rules.
PoRDoNs.
The president has pardoned Dennis
Kelly, Of Maine, convicted of man.
slaughter, and G. II. Daubrey, of Wis
consin. convicted OF pension frauds.
As both the convicts have served their
full term oil imprisonment the only
effect of the pardons is to restore them
to citizenship.
THE INDEMNITY MONEY.
The acting secretary of the treasury
has requested the Secretary of State
TO inform him To whom shall be paid
the sum of $147,74S appropriated at
the last session of congress to indem-
nifty Chinese subjects for losses sus-
tanned during the riots at Rock Springs,
Wyoming, in 1885. The act provides
that the money shall be paid to the
Chinese government, by which it is to
he distributed among the sufferers in
it's discretion. 1t is probable the
money will be turned over to the Chi
nese minister ut Washington, legal
representative of the Chinese govern
ment
BUG EXAMINER.
DIR. C. V. Riley, cntomologist Of the
agricultural department, has gone to
California to investigate among other
things the cottony cushion scale, an
insect imported from Australia. which
is reported to be doing immense dam
age to citrus orchards in California.
of INTEREST TO SOCIETY BOND HOLDERS.
The treasury department has issued
u circular to national and state banks
in regard to the endorsement of pay
ment of interest on checks which pro.
- yides that in all cases in which societies
and lodges hold United States bonds
in the names of the trustees, proper
evidence of their election must be filed
in the Office of the first auditor and
certificates OF authority for endorse
ment and collection of interest. Checks
must be from all trustees and not from
I'M society or lodge. The circular
60 that the proper endorsement OF
interest check is important and should
be known to conform to treasury rules
before payment.
SILVER COINS.
The secretary of state is in receipt OF
a dispatch from Mr.. Pendleton King,
charge ID -afIaires aditerem ut Con-
stantinople, dated February last say
ing that in order to give additional cf-
feet to its measures relative to circula-
ton of foreign silver coins which the
government of Turkey will absolutely
prohibit on April 13, 1887, all silver
foreign coins from interstate and
custom houses or postofiices, all such
coins will be returned to the place
whence they came unless fraudulently
entered when they will be contiscated.
High water.
BISMARCK, March 19-This at the
present time is the highest water ever
known in this part and unless the
gorge breaks ut Sibley Island Mandar
will be in danger of annihilation.
j. I.jAtle Heart river flows into the Mis-
ss4f Nj Just below Mandan and should
We in this stream break to-day or be-
fore the Buford rise arrives, the entire
surplus water will be backed into Man
dan. The high trestle of the Northern
Pacific is wrecked. Bismarck is the
terminus Oh inc NOrtncrn IdCillC. les
terday's passenger train with train
load of people bound for the Pacific
coast laid on side track here all night
and will not be able to leave for sever
al DAYS. Renewed efforts to break the
gorge at sibley island will be made
but it will be waste OF dynamite. The
gorge consists of six miles of solid ice
wedged into the bottom of the river
, and piled to the height of thirty feet
+ All mail routes are blockaded. The
snow storm has been transformed intC
q binding blizzard and it is feared tha
rescuing parties will be lost. They are
out with small yawls and with blind
ing storm, and current of ten miles al
hour, will be unable TO guide thei
crafts or keep their bearings.
Legislative Inv .igatiOn.
Hxw York, March 19.-The legisla
l to bmmittee continued the investi
CATION into the Brooklyn municipa
abuses to-day. Jas. q. Kelly, of Kell,
e. Bliss, was called as witness. He sait
that he was speculator and resided il
New York. He admitted that he wa
book maker and had speculating
i privileges at Sheepshead Bav races